Jamie Vardy has apologised to Leicester Metropolis’s supporters for the membership’s relegation and branded the 2024/25 marketing campaign a ‘sh**present”.
The Foxes’ speedy relegation again to the Championship was confirmed by Sunday’s 1-0 defeat to Premier League champions-elect Liverpool, courtesy of a late aim from substitute Trent Alexander-Arnold.
The defeat was Leicester’s twenty third of the Premier League season with 5 video games nonetheless remaining, piling additional distress on supervisor Ruud van Nistelrooy, appointed to interchange the sacked Steve Cooper in December, who has not seen his aspect even get a aim on the King Energy Stadium for over 4 months – an astonishing run of 9 scoreless video games.
Supporters have protested in opposition to the membership’s possession group and director of soccer Jon Rudkin, who they blame for the Foxes’ failings, and Vardy has admitted in a publish on social media that the gamers have been nowhere close to ok.
“At this level, I don’t even know what to say. No phrases I’ve can ever specific my emotions of anger and unhappiness with the way in which this season has gone. There are not any excuses,” Vardy wrote. “Collectively, as gamers and as a membership, we failed. There may be merely no hiding, and I refuse to entertain any suggestion of doing so.
“Having been at this membership for therefore lengthy, we’ve skilled so many highs and successes — and this season has been nothing however depressing and for me personally, a complete embarrassment. It hurts, and I do know you’re feeling it too.
“To the followers: I’m sorry. Sorry we haven’t carried out, and sorry we finish the 2025 season with such a s**t present.
Vardy was a key participant in Leicester’s well-known 2015/16 Premier League title winners, scoring 24 targets because the membership shocked the institution of Manchester Metropolis, Liverpool and Chelsea to win a first-ever prime flight crown.
The 38-year-old has given Leicester 13 seasons of service, scoring 181 targets throughout the Premier League and Championship, and once more tops their scoring charts this time round with seven strikes to his identify.
